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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The role of a release manager is crucial in ensuring that software projects are completed on time and within budget. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. You have to be technically-minded, with good technical skills.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Making a movie is just like building software, you need a budget, you need a plan, and you are trying to reach a ship date. Professional Developers create working software. Unknown ( Tweet this ).

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Improve Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) With Key Result Validation

Scrum.org

In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR). Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle. Budget position. If you are expecting the project oversight committee to make a decision at the meeting, make sure that they have information in advance of your meeting so that they can review the different options. Action review and next steps.

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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

We learn as we go and take small steps with defined budgets, resourcing, and time-boxes. What agile adds to this, therefore, is a distinct cadence of its own iterations or drawdowns of tasks into the Work in Progress part of the Kanban Board. Rapid development in the technology available. That is completely wrong.

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Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

Planview

I recently hosted a webinar with Joaquim Cols, Director of Operations for Santander Technology UK, where he described the bank’s progress in aligning business with IT: “ Unlock Enterprise Agility: Drive Strategic Delivery for the Business.” In Technology they were used to the processes and tools, so the transition was easy and simple.

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The Transformation Journey: Lessons Learned

Planview

Hosted by CITF, the UK’s leading membership organization for technology professionals, the webinar includes our insights and recommendations on extending Agile practices. It’s difficult to react swiftly to change when your plans and budgets are set in stone. Patrick has dubbed this phenomenon “strategy atrophy.”

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